CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2024
Hi There, This week a look ahead to the – CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2024 We will be accepting entries for 2 weeks from Monday Sept 18th to Monday Oct 2nd. The entry criteria are the same as last year. We will not accept scripts that you have previously submitted ie you have to submit […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE – SUCCESS STORIES
Hi There, This will be my last newsletter until Friday September 8th as I take a break from it over August. A few weeks ago, on July 4th, we held the industry drinks evening for this year’s Channel 4 screenwriting course, to introduce this year’s 12 writers to potential employers (producers, development executives, script editors) […]
CHARACTER VOICE-NOTES PART 2
Hi There, This week, the 2nd part of the excellent voice-note / character monologues that came out of my CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS ONE DAY COURSE in London on Sunday June 18th. I wanted to share these with you because I hope, from the quality and richness of the different characters created over about 90 minutes, […]
CHARACTER VOICENOTES
Hi There, The Sunday before last, June 18th, I held my one day CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS course for the first time since pre-lockdown. The writers really entered into the spirit of the day and so many brilliant story ideas and characters emerged from the day. We do an exercise in which I ask them to […]
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2nd WEEKEND – SOME REFLECTIONS
Hi There, CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING COURSE 2ND WEEKEND We’ve completed the Channel 4 screenwriting course for another year (apart from the industry drinks evening coming up in a few weeks at which we introduce the year’s 12 writers to potential employers and agents from the industry) and I wanted to reflect a little on the […]
CREATIVE STEALING – YOUR RESPONSES
Hi There, I hope your writing is going very well. This fortnight, your responses to my last newsletter, ‘CREATIVE STEALING’. ‘Hi Philip, Inspiring newsletter, thank you. I like STEALING. I tend to do this with dead authors, using their literary works as inspiration. For example, I’m currently adapting Hamlet to a monastic setting in 12th […]
CREATIVE STEALING
Hi There, STORY PROMPTS / STEALING CREATIVELY One of the things I often find myself talking to writers about is the importance of having a fund of great ideas that you’re interested in writing about – and the need to be constantly replenishing this supply of killer ideas. This is particularly the case once your […]
INTERVIEWS & CVs
Hi There, INTERVIEWS & CVs INTERVIEWS I’ve been in the lucky position over the last few years of being the one who does the interviewing rather than being the one interviewed so I thought it might be helpful to share some observations about job / course interviews and CV’s. This is particularly fresh in my […]
THREE NEW COURSES + RECOMMENDED SCREENWRITING
Hi There, This fortnight, I want to tell you about three courses I will be running in the next few weeks / months – CREATIVITY FOR SCRIPTWRITERS Sunday June 18th in central London. A one day course. This will be the first time I’ve held this course since 2019 and I’m delighted to be running […]
DEBUT ON TWO – A BLAST FROM THE PAST
In a neglected bookshelf at home, I found this book that I had first read a long time ago and hadn’t looked at for the last decade or two. I bought this book when I was still a struggling actor with plummeting self-esteem and little idea about what I wanted to do next with my […]
